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T]he Cookie Diet. . .has to be one of the best diet scams I've seen in years. I went on the cookie diet myself,many moons ago, back in college. And I lost about 15 pounds very quickly.

I ate two Chips Ahoys for breakfast, two Chips Ahoys for lunch and three Chips Ahoys for dinner, along with all the TAB I could drink. I had to quit it however, when I fainted in English Lit.

Hendrix, who stood at 6 feet 5 inches, distinguished himself not only with his stylish clothes but his knack for cracking cases.

In his 21 years with the homicide unit, Mr. Hendrix cleared more than 85 percent of the 500-plus cases he investigated.

"He was a living legend," said John Monroe, a San Francisco police inspector who had worked with Mr. Hendrix and considered him a friend and mentor, as did many others coming up through the ranks.

"He was a guy who could go out there and talk to people, and people talked to him," Monroe said.

He retired in 1999 after working for the department for 34 years, during which he probed some of San Francisco's most notorious killings, among them the Zebra shootings and the high-rise massacre at 101 California St. Many more were in the shadows of the front-page headlines, often involving young men in the black-on-black gang warfare.

Now I'm reading The Help. It's a novel about white women and their African-American housekeepers in the 60's. Each chapter is told from one of the women's point of view.

  Set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams. Assured and layered, full of heart and history, this one has bestseller written all over it.

KNBC-TV (Los Angeles) | October 25, 2009
Heidi Klum to Design Shoes, Maternity - "Heidi Klum won't let four kids stop her, as the supermodel mother expands her empire to include shoes and maternity in 2010.  And according to her Project Runway protege, Christian Siriano, the two of them will be on Oprah on October 29, when we'll presumably learn more."